A bit of an issue with dnf offline-upgrade

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so… I was updating my system as usual (I use sudo dnf offline-upgrade download --refresh for that, followed by sudo dnf offline-upgrade reboot). I restarted my computer, it started installing packages, but at the last packages, it seemed to auto-restart my computer before it even said “Complete”. It still had like 1 or 2 more packages to go, too.

is there any way to look at the details of the last system update to see if any errors happened?

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Maybe /var/log/dnf5.log

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hmm… everything seems ok there, it says “Complete” in the logs. I just can’t see the total amount of packages, so idk if it completed all of them. I guess it probably did.
I also have a lot of post-uninstall scriptlet callbacks returned with return code 0 for some reason, here’s one example:

2025-01-11T08:11:15+0000 [1128] INFO RPM callback start trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet "systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64"
2025-01-11T08:11:15+0000 [1128] INFO RPM callback stop trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet "systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64" return code 0

for some reason, specifically with systemd, it returned them like 8 times. But it returned them with other packages too.
I hope nothing’s wrong here haha. Because I don’t understand anything here (not a tech user).

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I think that it is ok. Just performed an offline upgrade

2025-01-11T08:27:50+0000 [831] INFO RPM callback start trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet "systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64"
2025-01-11T08:27:50+0000 [831] INFO RPM callback stop trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet "systemd-0:256.11-1.fc41.x86_64" return code 0
2025-01-11T08:27:50+0000 [831] INFO RPM callback start trigger-install scriptlet "vim-common-2:9.1.984-1.fc41.x86_64"
2025-01-11T08:27:52+0000 [831] INFO RPM callback stop trigger-install scriptlet "vim-common-2:9.1.984-1.fc41.x86_64" return code 0
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You can also list the performed actions with
sudo dnf history info last

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thanks for doing that, haha.
I haven’t checked the entire log for errors, there’s a lot to read… but if it said “Complete” and “Restarting”, I’m gonna assume that there were no errors. Otherwise it would probably tell me right as it happened… although I do tend to look away while it’s updating.

well, not seeing any errors there either.

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Did you manually restart the computer, or did it restart after running the second dnf command?

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by “restarted” I meant that I ran offline-upgrade reboot. I didn’t do anything else in order to restart it.